BACKEND DEVELOPER

We are looking for an experienced Backend developer to join our team. As a Backend Developer, your responsibility is to design and develop robust high-performance and scalable server-side applications.

If you have excellent programming skills and a passion for developing applications or improving existing ones, we would like to meet you. Ultimately, you should be able to develop and maintain functional and stable server applications to meet our company’s needs.

Responsibilities

Participate in the entire application lifecycle, focusing on coding and debugging

Write clean code to develop functional server-side applications

Troubleshoot and debug applications

Collaborate with Frontend developers to integrate user-facing elements with server side logic

Gather and address technical and design requirements

Build reusable code and libraries for future use

Keep up with emerging technologies and best practices

Requirements

Proven work experience as a Backend developer

In-depth understanding of the entire web development process (design, development and deployment)

Hands on experience with Node.js, ES6, RESTful api design, Git

Experience with automated testing

Excellent analytical and time management skills

Teamwork skills with a problem-solving attitude

Experience in SQL databases (PostgreSQL preferred).

As part of the backend team you will be introduced to Agave Lab’s standards and best practices. The following topics are not pre-requisite knowledge but are a plus: